Rail support or tie for railways



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J. K. CLARK.

RAIL SUPPORT OR TIE FOR RAILWAYS.

No. 323,275. Patented July Z8, 1885'.

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@Ntra rares JOHN K. CLARK, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

RAIL SUPPORT OR TIE FOR RAILWAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,275, dated July 28, 1885.

Application tiled August 18, 1884.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J @HN K. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, Erie county, New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail Supports or rIies for Railways, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its objects to provide an efficient support for the rails of railroads; to avoid the use of wooden ties; to provide novel means for connecting metallic rail-sup ports, whereby I provide a solid bearing and a base for the ballast; to provide a novel tieplate and means for connecting two opposite metallic rail-supports; to provide a continuous or unbroken bearing of the rail-supports and he connecting tie-plate on the road-bed, and to provide such construction and union of parts that a practically solid structure ,is secured adapted to rest squarely and evenly on the road-bed and be properly conned in position by the ballast.

The objects of my invention are accomplished by the construction and combination of devices hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of two of the rail-supports and connecting tie-plate, comprising the completed tie; Fig. 2,a longitudinal central sectional view taken vertically through the supports and tieplate, Fig. 3, a detached perspective view of one of the railsupports, Fig. 4, a detached perspective view of the tie-plate; and Fig. 5,a vertical sectional view of one of the railsupports, showing a modification of the invention.

The present invention is of the general character shown and described in my application for Letters Patent led January 22, 1884, Serial No. 120,7 30, and I doV not therefore wish to be understood as broadly claiming what is embraced in the said application.

In order to enable those skilled inthe art to make and use .my present invention, I will now describe the same in detail, reference being made to the drawings, where it will be seen that each of the rail-supports is composed of a horizontal bottom wall 0r base number, 1, vertical side walls, 2, a transverse top plate, 3, to which the rail is secured, and a central vertical web, 4, joined Ythe nuts 11. tudinally along their margins, as at 13, to pro- (No model.)

to the top plate and the bottom and side Walls, the side walls being inclined from the end of the top plate to the ends of the'bottom plate, whereby I provide a :narrow top bearing-surface for the rail as compared to the extended base which rests on the road-bed. The bottom plate is formed with a rectangular slot or perforation, 5, adjacent to the web et, and the under side of the said wall is formed with a rectilinear recess extending from the web to the end of the wall to constitute a depntessed seat, 6, for receiving one end of the tie-plate 7, so that when the latter is in the seat its lower surface may be flush with the lower surface of the support. The tie-plate is rectilinear in shape, and at each end is provided with a standard,8,formed as a flange,having a perforation,9, adjacent to its upper extremity such standards passing through the perforations 5 in the bottom walls and engaging bolts 10, secured to the webs of the supports. These bolts are provided with heads and pass through the webs, to which they are attached at their inner end portions by screw-nuts 11, leaving the projecting threaded portion of the bolt to pass through the standards of the tie-plates and engage screwnuts 12, which screw up against the standards to clamp them against The tie-plates are ribbed longivide strength, and are formed with two oriices, 14, and raised lips 15, which project in opposite directions and respectively overlap the recessed ends ofthe bottom walls of the supports to hold such ends down and secure a strong and substantial connection of theprftrts.` The object of the orifices is to permit the lips 15 to be formed by punching orV molding up the metal, thereby forming the lips and creating the orifices.

The ends of the tie-plate, being seated in depressed seats in the bottom walls of the supports, prevent any lateral movement of the support in relation to the tie-plate, as well as bring the parts flush to preserve the continnuity of the bearing of the structure on the road-bed, and also obtain a broad or extended and continuous bearing on the road-bedintermediate the supports, the whole constituting, as it were, a solid structure or tie from end to end. The ballast-such as broken stones, &c.- is packed into the supports and upon the tieplate, and as the latter rests on the road-bed in line with the bases of the supports, a rm and substantial railway-tie is produced.

The manner of connecting the rails with the top plate may be through the medium of the diagonally arranged overhanging lugs 17, forming part of the top plate, as in my application before alluded to, and as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings; or I may connect the rails with the top plates by hooked screwbolts, as shown in Fig. 5. In this example the top plate will be provided with square or angular orifices, through which pass the square shanks of the hooks 18, the hooks engaging the anges of the rails, and the shanks of the hooks having screw-threaded extremities engaging screw-nuts 19 under the top plates of the supports, so that by screwing up the nuts the hooks clamp the rail-flanges on the top plate, while the angular form of the hookshanks and angular sockets in the top plate prevent the hooks from turning in any direction. rlhe orifices for the bolts and for the hooks 18 will be cored out during the process of casting the rail-supports to avoid the expense of drilling, and the rail -supports and tie-plates are preferably composed of malleable iron; but I do not confine myself to any special means of forming the orilices or to any particular metal in the construction of the invention. The depressed seats in the bottom walls of the rail-supports are formed by raising the metal of the walls,V

as at 20, thus imparting a bridged or angular form to the walls, so that they are of uniform thickness and considerably strengthened.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A rail-support consisting of the top plate, the side walls, the web, and the bottom wall having a rectilinear depressed seat in its under side to receive the end of a rectilinear tieplate, substantially as described.

2. A rail-support consisting` of the top plate, the side walls, the web, and the bottom wall having the slot or perforation and the. rectilinear depressed seat for receiving the end of the rectilinear tie-plate, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the two rail-supports, each composed ofthe top plate, the side walls, the web7 and the horizontal bottom wall having a rectilinear depressed seat with the rectilinear tie-plate having its end portions confined in the depressed seats, substantiallyv as described.

4. The combination of the two rail-supports, each composed of the top plate, the side walls, the web, and the horizontal bottom wall having the depressed rectilinear seat, with the tieplate arranged in said seats, and having standards connected with the web, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the two rail-supports, each composed of the top plate, the side walls, the web, and the horizontal bottom wall having the slot or perforation and the rectilinear depressed seat in its under side, with the tieplate arranged in said seats,and having standards at its extremities and bolts connecting the standards to the web, substantially as described.

6. The combination of two rail-supports, each having a top plate to receive the rail, and an extended bottom wall having a rectilinear seat, with a tie-plate securedin said seats` with its lower surface flush or substantially ush with the lower surfaces of the said bottom walls, substantially as described.

7. The combination of the two rail-supports, each composed of the top plate, the side walls, the vertical web, and the horizontal bottom Wall, with a rectilinear tie-plate connecting the adjacent ends of the bottom walls of the supports and arranged -in the plane of the said bottom walls, substantially as described.

8. The combination of the two rail-supports having the webs, the tie-plates having the end standards, the bolts and nuts connecting the end standards with the web, and means for securing rails on the top plate, substantially as described.

9. The tie-plate having the oppositely-projecting raised lips and end standards, in combination with the rail-supports having webs to which the standards are attached and bottom walls engaging the lips, substantially as described.

' In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOI-IN K. CLARK.

Witnesses:

HARLow C. CURrIss, WV. J. Wnrrn. 

